On Bypass Advanced Perfusion Techniques /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Mongero, Linda B. (Editor), Beck, James R. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press, 2008.
• Series: Current Cardiac Surgery
• Subjects: Medicine.; Anesthesiology.; Cardiology.; Surgery.; Cardiac surgery.; Medicine & Public Health.; Cardiac Surgery.

With the introduction of cardiac surgery more than five decades ago and the use of the heart-lung machine for open heart surgical procedures granting the surgeon unlimited time in which to operate inside the heart, a complex task has been given to the Perfusionist. With a pairing of a perfusionist a...

Table of Contents:

• The Engineering of Cardiopulmonary Bypass
• Pediatric Perfusion Techniques for Complex Congenital Cardiac Surgery
• Separation from Cardiopulmonary Bypass: Hemodynamic Considerations
• Prime Solutions for Extracorporeal Circulation
• Blood Flow During Cardiopulmonary Bypass
• The Inflammatory Response to Cardiopulmonary Bypass
• Minimally Invasive Perfusion Techniques
• Cannulation and Clinical Concerns for Cardiopulmonary Bypass Access
• Ultrafiltration in Cardiac Surgery
• Echocardiography and Cardiopulmonary Bypass
• Surgical Approach to Aortic Surgery and Perfusion Techniques
• ECMO to Artificial Lungs: Advances in Long-Term Pulmonary Support
• Policy and Procedure Guidelines.